 Good morning everybody, I am Dr. Kalpana Kanan, I am the overall coordinator for the massive open online courses at IIT Bombay as well as large scale teacher training. So, I welcome you all to this program. Before we start, I would like to wish everybody a very happy Navaratri and on this happy occasion, we are very happy to launch the train 10,000 librarians program. This is, you all must be very familiar with our large scale teacher training, the T10KT program. So, based on similar lines, today we are launching the train 10,000 librarians program. So, I welcome all of you to this program and I would like to tell you the program for today. So, for another half an hour or so, till around 10, 15 or 10, 20, we will be having the program from IIT Bombay and then we will switch the control to Igno in Delhi and we have delegates in Igno Delhi who will be addressing you from 10.30 to around 11 o'clock. So, and after that, there will be a tea break and after that you each RC will have to conduct the workshop using the spoken tutorial methodology and there will be two parallel sessions, one for the librarians and one for the system admin. I hope I am clear about this program and then maybe towards the end, we will connect again to address the participants, but that we will announce little later. So, now, I welcome Dr. Manjunayaka, he is the chief library officer at IIT Bombay Central library. He would like to share his thoughts on Koha. So, I welcome Dr. Manjunayaka. Thank you, madam. Good morning to all of you. I welcome you all once again for this today Koha workshop which is conducted under NVLI, National Virtual Library of India Ministry of Culture, Government of India which is an important the project to collect, disseminate the India's intellectual and cultural output of the country, where India's the output is reside in library, museum, archive. The institution which are holding these collections, librarians, library professionals have a major role to achieve this national interest. So, under this project, we want to train the MASHU, the librarian under digital era. Library automation started in India around four decades ago, around 1980. Today we are in 2018, but still we have not automated libraries. The challenges were many. One was cost of the hardware was too high, availability of the software were very few and those were proprietary, not available so easily and also cost was too high. And another third major challenge was availability of experts, only few experts were available. So, that is why in many libraries, they could not automate their library using the latest the standards and technology available. Under this project, so we want to overcome all these challenges. The one is how to address this hardware cost was today, we need not to buy the hardware, particularly some of this hardware is provided by NVLI through virtual machine. Software is available in a open source like COHA, which is a proven, the stable and scalable the software. The expert is available in the form of spoken tutorial. So, knowledge is already recorded, we need not to reinvest again and again to create the same tutorial. So, once is created, used by thousands of time across the world. At IIT Bombay, within six months, we have automated a library by using a COHA. So, imagine that traffic, the transaction, the number of stop-logins required is too high, such a national institute of importance like IIT Bombay Central Library. So, many institutions in India like a small, whether private or public or academic library. So, if you are using successfully, probably you also can implement a COHA in your organization very easily in a very at the short period, which is an important to crawling the data for a national interest for the national project like a NVLI. COHA started around 2000 in New Zealand by Kottipo communication. The meaning of COHA means the gift. So, this is gift for the society, it is a gift for the community. So, here once you are using in whatever form, whether you are contributing a code, whether you are using a COHA, whether you are giving a suggestion, you are giving a gift back to the society. So, indirectly you are the owner of this software, you are the contributor. So, COHA is the large community for participation as well as usage across the world. As I said earlier, you need not to worry about the any failure of the library automation. So, all these the challenges taken care by the experts. So, 100 percent definitely you can automate your library, you can make your institution collection not only to your user to the global community, you can disseminate the India's intellectual and cultural output. COHA supports almost all international standards, which we are using library community in day to day practice like Mark 21, the Unimark, OAPMH, RFID, FRBR like that there are several standards it taken care. So, only we need to concentrate on our day to day activity like cataloging, like a issue or charging or discharging or renewal, suggestion, the procurement all those things even inter library loan is also international procedure has been followed here. Almost all the housekeeping activities of the library such as acquisition, the circulation, material control, web OAPAC and also record reporting in several almost all the function it supports irrespective of the library, whether your library is a public library, whether college library, whether university library, whether special library. It is a scalable library software it will meets the almost all the requirements of the library. Since it is being all over the world, so popularity is increased every six month the new version is coming up. So, currently a 18.05 version COHA is available, so you can without any hesitation you can use this COHA to implement your library and also this methodology which is usually say very standard proven methodology spoken to blend MOOC the learning. I hope you will learn whatever a technical things are required to automated in your library in a very short period please concentration on this the tutorial we have meticulously followed whatever steps are required for our day to day library activities from membership to library housekeeping activity from issue or return on cataloging and also as well as to searching of the records by end user. With this few words about COHA library automation software as well as spoken tutorial methodology I hope you will learn many things about the COHA features this learning outcome will be much more better than any other learning with this few words I will conclude my speech I wish you all the best. Thank you very much. Thank you madam. Thank you doctor Manjanaika that was a very good introduction to the workshop today. Now I welcome professor Supratik Chakravarty he is a professor in the department of computer science in at IIT Bombay and he is also the project investigator for our project ESOS stands for education services for outreach at scale. So I welcome professor Chakravarty. Hello good morning everybody it is a pleasure to have all of you with us today. So as you know today's workshop is about an open source software for library comprehensive you know library management and administration. So we are very glad that over there are over 2000 participants were participating today including librarians and system administrators. So we hope you will have a very fruitful session today and it will be a hands on session so you will actually see this software working live in your remote centers whichever remote center you have come to and at the end of the day there will again be a live session where we will yeah from 5 to 6 where we will again consolidate yeah and answer any questions. So without much ado I will hand it over to Kalpana and all the best for today's workshop thank you. Thank you professor Chakravarty. So we are switching over to Ignu now. To give you all to this trained 10,000 librarian workshop this is the first time such a large workshop is being attempted for the librarians. This is being done by the NVLI project National Virtual Library of India funded by the Ministry of Culture. I welcome all the participants in all the under remote centers for having come early in the morning and being around. We will shortly start the formal inaugural at 10.30. In the meantime I thought that we can have some interaction if there are any questions from any of the remote centers they can hand raise and we will connect you and you can ask the questions for everybody else to see. Are there any questions from any remote centers if so please go ahead and connect them. Good morning. So can you tell for the benefit of listeners, participants in other centers in which district, which state of India you are in and then how many participants are there, how many librarians are there just to get a feel for it. Thank you. So we are from Ganga Institute of Technology and Sciences, Jabalpur sir. And we have eight participants with us registered. Okay. Do you have any questions on how to conduct this workshop? Yeah. There is no such I mean questions from our side. Okay. One of our participants has asked that is there any backup for the software is required and like how to get the backups for the cataloging all this. Yeah. So we will address them towards the end of the day. We'll get started with learning Koho. Today we are going to do two types of workshops. One is for the librarians how to use Koho. The other one is for the system administrators who will learn how to install Koho. Towards the end of the day we will ask specific questions. So thanks for joining. Now we will see if we can connect to some other remote center. Good morning sir. This is Shubh Bhandu Gowaniyogi from 1132 we have four participants today. And I being a remote center coordinator and with my team coordinating this workshop. So the question I'm just giving it to participant. But before that I would like to ask see today we are conducting this workshop and later on when they will go back and install this software. So they also require our help also your help to run this Koho smoothly in their centers. So I'm having one more participant with me who is having some questions regarding Koho. So I'm giving Mike to him. So before that can you please tell what state you are in what district so that the other participants in the other hundred other centers know. Professor Shubh Bhandu Gowaniyogi head of IT from remote center 1132, Udaipur, Rajasthan. So you know these participants are from little far means they're from 100 kilometers around. So we tried our level best to connect local libraries also but finally we managed to get four participants from nearby centers. No no problem. Thanks. Ask the participants. Thank you sir. Good morning sir. I am Araskumar from Mewari University that is in Rajasthan and just we have joined to this workshop for installation and all the process on the Koho and we are going to run to this software in our university. So just I have joined to this workshop and right now they are helping to us that how we can installation virtual image and oven tool and other Linux software and after that installation of the Koho. So just I have heard a lot of about that Koho and right now we are going to installation in our university therefore so just we are learning for here and I haven't any problem in this process and again I'll if I have any problem then I'll call sir. Yeah thanks we are ready to help. In fact we have set up forums this you will learn the usage of Koho through a method called spoken tutorials and we have a forum on our web page in that you can ask questions based on the tutorial in which you have the question at what time you have the question what minute what second and so on for example you can say I have a question in the third tutorial okay it will have a name of course the name will appear pull down menu you open it and then you say that I have a question between three and four minutes then once you have selected you can say that I have a question between 20 and 30 seconds then the question page will appear you can ask your question and somebody will answer and that question and answer that discussion will be available to everybody else who uses Koho so this is a method that we have created to make the question and answer also useful as learning material it's a an organized FAQ if you wish so we would do that and we will also add more tutorials one of the things we plan to do towards the end of the day is to expose you to tutorials that teach you how to ingest CSV files that is suppose you have your data already in Excel for example for some people it may be easier to generate that data using Excel some of you may already have it it may also be possible that you have some other database from that you export as a CSV file so whatever it is you might have CSV file then how to convert that CSV into Mark 21 that is one tutorial then once you are Mark 21 how to read that in into Koho so that you don't have to type the data once again so this is something that we are going to let you do we already have tutorials the only thing is we have created them for Windows because most of you are likely to be using Windows machine so we are starting from CSV so the method is the same if you have Linux it's going to be a lot easier but we are taking the stand that most of you are likely to be using Windows and we have created tutorials for that so if you have access to a Windows machine I would want you to practice them at you know four o'clock I think if I'm not mistaken after the tea break in the afternoon you will do that so starting from the data how to take this into Koho how to maintain it how to create circulation how to add patrons do lending and so on because Koho is an amazing library management software open source okay so now further help will be available provided and then once again we will meet in the afternoon now in the discussion session in the meantime we can go to some other remote center thank you thank you thank you good morning sir my name is professor Amar Mudiraj I am from RCID 1098 Marathoda Institute of Technology from Aurangabad Maharashtra we are very fortunate that we have 34 participants get registered to this workshop from our remote center and out of that 34 30 participants are attending the morning session and I have couple of questions the very first question is that regarding the backup issues of Koho and another issue was the installation of Koho but we and our team of system administrator teaching assistant and my students have been work from last two days and we have ready with the enough number of competitors for the participants to learn the Koho effectively so Marathoda Institute is in Aurangabad if you people can create Ajanta Ellora 2000 years ago Koho is nothing piece of cake so you'll be able to do a fantastic job the way the workshop is arranged it is a self-paced workshop some people will learn all the tutorials in one go you might already know you'll find it very easy whereas some other people will say that look I'm learning it first time I cannot learn all of that today that's fine even you will end up learning seven eight tutorials if not all 15 16 but given time you spend one more day at your leisure copy all the tutorials on your pen drive take them with you learn whenever you have time and within a day you will reach the same level as everybody else so this method is created for beginners and take them all the way to the highest level I say that anybody can climb Himalayas if enough number of small steps are given sufficient number of small steps are given anybody can climb Himalayas so Koho is not rocket science you can certainly learn okay thank you is there any other remote center we are from Geetanjali Institute of Science and Technology Nellur Andhra Pradesh remote center ID 1294 I'm remote center coordinator today we have 40 participants gathered here they have few queries I'll hand over Mike to them good morning sir sir how to set up regional long ways in Koho data and okay first of all I want to congratulate you for attending this workshop in spite of Titli I know that it has subsided now it's not life it's not life threatening anymore but nevertheless that there were three meter high waves I believe so I want to thank you all for coming to the workshop we will take this up you asked an important question how to accommodate that I don't think we have any spoken tutorial yet we will add more tutorials and we will make them available thank you I have two questions one question is is there any opaque facility in the Koho and second question is title wise means how in one particular subject if I need title wise data do I get in this koho so the answer to the first question is yes we have maybe some of these questions can be answered after you go through the content so we will meet again at in the afternoon between five and six we will answer your questions then we can also have librarians to answer your questions I'm not a librarian we are just putting together this workshop answer to second question is Koho is a library management software so whatever you put can be retrieved made available and it is also possible to automate some of these activities so I'm going to stop here I don't want to get too much into details those will be any way discussed by the librarians so thanks Nellur we will go to another remote center sir this is the GRID business center code is 1080 from Hyderabad telling on a state sir this is a heartily welcome sir we are conducting this program this is the total little awareness of the program the koho internally the participation of the librarians this is the very appreciation of the program the IITB is in shape to take the program very very congratulations sir this is the tutorials is the very useful to us that practical point of view it is the very very useful you can conduct the regional wise by the telling on our Andhra Pradesh or any one of the state in the practice of the two days program in the to type the colleges or universities J&D Hyderabad such as above that universities they are the providing the lot of facilities the practice point of view that is the view useful to the all the librarians that is my solution sir from outside from the Telangana okay thank you very much we also plan to dub the tutorials into all 22 languages of our country so it can be made available to everybody including the librarians in small towns and villages koho is an amazing software it is being used throughout the world so if a library science student for example learns koho then he or she can get internship opportunity from anywhere they can go to Smithsonian they can go to the public library in Seattle for example which has an amazing library there are amazing libraries throughout the world both in developed and in countries like ours it creates it opens opportunities for all learners it will be a great thing for library science students so if you have any question please ask specific question otherwise we will go to some other remote center thank you I'm from remote center chai bus engineering college remote center quote 1355 okay welcome please go ahead ask your question okay sir sir any option in koho for taking the database yes it is possible to import data from some other database and also it is possible to export data from koho both are possible you will learn some of it today thank you thank you sir okay let's go to another state we are from kerala centers of engineering and technology palai we have got 54 participants here congratulations and thank you for joining us in spite of all the problems you have had and I want to also thank the san josez college administration for making your engineering college available in this noble cause of training the librarians thank you please go ahead with your question sir can we help in making a regional language version for this pocket tutorials we will have malayalam dubbing and any help will be welcome we have our own person at it bombay and we will be happy to work with you yes definitely we want to dub it into all 22 languages all our languages are equal we want to make them available in every language irrespective of the number of people for example Sanskrit is one of our 22 languages we will make it available in Sanskrit also thank you okay thank you sir yeah let's go to another state we are from M.A.M college of engineering and technology which is in drichy and we have around 37 librarians here who have come from parambalore from surrounding districts we are in tamil nadu and i'd like to give it to a school librarian who has come and she would like to ask a question i'm from a school librarian so i want to know whether which was criteria as was used by koga it was useful for the school side you initiated any work for the school side now thus their coordinator said to me it is related to the public sectors and then college related but i want to know it should be related to the i mean it should be useful for the school side also so i'm the only person came from the school side so and private school also so tell me that it is useful for that school sides also and you have to initiate some works to school side also support schools also sir that was a good library for us also absolutely absolutely i'm really delighted to have a librarian from a school koha is definitely useful for school libraries also it is useful for any library any library it doesn't matter whether it is in school college tamil nadu andhra some and then university whether it is in india japan san francisco and so on right um so we are making it available to everybody i also want help from you please spread the message amongst all schools you might have school library association you tell this important thing i would like to hear from you end of the day whether you could follow it whether it is useful to you i'm pretty sure you will i'll get a positive reply from you and i want to help from you to share this news with all the fellow librarians from schools thank you sir thank you sure i'll connect you okay let's go to another state i'm from remote center 108 goa college of engineering goa we have 15 participants for this workshop it is nice to collaborate with iit bombay for this workshop and only one question i have is from the participants and one more participant wants to talk to you also that whether there will be a technical support from iit to the libraries who are going to adopt this koa software welcome all of you you must have started very early to reach the center at 9 30 in the morning through the nbl i project that is national virtual library of india project we plan to support this activity so one of the questions already asked was will there be a backup facility we will create a spoken material on how to do backup and through the discussion forum answer questions through spoken materials help you migrate from one library to one library software to another software help you migrate to new versions so all kinds of things everything is going to be considered so the nbl i project funded by the ministry of culture will definitely be undertaking this with of course a special focus on public libraries because public libraries until now haven't had this kind of organized activity so we would like to make it available to them and the moment we make it available to them it is going to be easily accessible to college libraries also as i answered the question from a librarian from a school just a while ago this will be available to school libraries also so we are talking about creating a system that has a potential to catalog all the libraries throughout the country and make them available to everybody it's so it's a it's an ambitious project it cannot be done without your cooperation we want all of you to join us id bombay is of course behind this we also have in the nbl i project ignore as a member in the formal program you will get to see professor umma kanjilal the library sciences expert we also have cdak as a partner of this nbl i project so we are here to support you thank you all right now we will get on with the formal program happy that we could receive questions from at least 10 states really delighted we will get on with the formal program um thank you